Team Leader- Animal Care
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Job Summary
For nearly 75years Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences finance IT sales or another area your skills will play an important role in the work we return well help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Summary
Team Leader Barrier Production
Location: On Site - Margate Kent Full time (35 Hrs) Mon-Thurs 7.5hrs Friday 5hrs
Lead people. Shape culture. Support worldclass research.
This is a leadership role first and dont need to walk in as a technical expert we can teach the technical matters most is your ability to lead coach motivate and develop people.
Were looking for a confident resilient and positive people leader to guide a team working within a highstandard barrier rodent model production environment.
Team Leader - Animal Care
What youll do
As our Team Leader you will:
- Lead & Develop People.
- Inspire support and develop a team of animal technicians.
- Set clear expectations around behaviour performance and accountability.
- Build a positive inclusive and psychologically safe team culture.
- Address challenges early fairly and constructively.
- Drive Operational Excellence.
- Coordinate daily and weekly work to meet production and welfare standards.
- Monitor workloads staffing and training needs adapting plans as required.
- Maintain high standards of barrier practice routines and cleanliness.
- Ensure all work meets training documentation regulatory requirements and internal quality standards.
- Be a Visible HandsOn Leader.
- Spend the majority of your time in the barrier facilityengaged accessible and working alongside the team.
- Act as the first point of escalation for operational welfare or people issues.
- Collaborate & Improve.
- Work closely with peer leaders and managers to ensure smooth operations (some weekend/bank holiday working on a rota basis).
- Support audits inspections and continuous improvement initiatives.
What were looking for
- Experience leading or influencing people in an operational regulated or production environment.
- Confidence to hold honest conversations and make fair balanced decisions.
- Calm steady and consistent leadership especially under pressure.
- A genuine passion for helping others grow not just managing tasks.
- Strong communication skills integrity and selfawareness.
(Experience in laboratory animal care or technical production environments is helpful but not essential well teach you what you need to know.)
Benefits: Life assurance Single PMI bonus career development training opportunities free onsite parking subsidised staff room pay for participation on volunteer days on-site team building charity fundraising days employee engagement programs.
Pension plan:1st year employee -Company contribution 5% - Employee 4% After 3 years: Company contribution 9% and employee 1%
Holidays- 26 days 8 for Public holidays
About Research Models & Services
Fundamental to basic research and discovery is the use of in vivo models to help identify disease targets and determine potential biological pathways that regulate the condition. As the worlds leader in the production and distribution of the highest quality research animal with 1 out of 2 animal models produced for preclinical research globally we understand the importance of this step. With seven decades of experience our expertise is unmatched allowing us to provide you with the perfect model including disease-specific and preconditioned options for basic research and beyond.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model which reduces their costs enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our clients unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies biotechnology companies government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of peoples lives. Our mission our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
At Charles River Laboratories we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.
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About Company
Find your moment to make a significant impact on global health with a career at Charles River
